[stomachmonkey]

I know this may sound counter intuitive but Police do not always have automatic authority to enforce traffic rules on private property.

My community is what we refer to as an unincorporated area of the county.

As such any traffic infractions were unenforceable.

You could speed, run stop signs, fail to signal, etc... with impunity.

If the Police saw you they could issue you a citation but you could ignore it because literally no one had jurisdiction to enforce them. Kind of like winning in small claims court but not being able to collect.

Once the residents figured that out it was mayhem. We had to petition the Governor to allow the county Sheriff to enforce traffic regulations and even then we had to spell out exactly which ones we wanted enforced and get signatures from at least 50% of the residents which almost did not happen.

So I think something similar happened here. The property owners requested enforcement of traffic rules but may not have necessarily had the shops and their customers in mind as a specific target.

It's possible the property owners could only request all or nothing unlike our community that had the option on which rules were enforceable.

The article makes it sound like all, or at least a large number of the tickets were issued by one individual.